Drunken Van Orden, Wisconsin drinking culture and wedding barns

Disreputable, Despicable, Dishonorable, Derrick

During my Marine Corps days there was nothing like being on base and seeing the line out the px and 7 day store on Friday afternoon.  Young Marines waiting to buy multiple cases of beer.

Since then, working the job, you meet any number of drunks and the mean ones are apparent right away.

Derrick Van Orden is most definitely a mean drunk.  And I have no doubt when weekend liberty came and he and his fellow SEALs went out to party and booze it up, Van Orden was the type who got piss drunk and then engaged in play-fighting which he quickly escalated into an actual fight/wrestling match. 

Drunk Van Orden is the type of abusive alcoholic asshole whom the Department of Defense no longer wants portrayed in movies and tv series but, which are ubiquitous throughout the services.

But, once a mean drunk always a mean drunk.  Drunk Van Orden's childish tantrum and despicable booze-filled outburst at teenage Senate pages shows great disrespect on Naval tradition.  But, one first thing rage filled assholes like Drunk Van Orden (just like other mean drunks) do is justify their actions.  Which we saw Drunk Van Orden do by aping the 'Tell Me you've never been" meme to act as though getting piss-drunk in his Congressional Office and then accosting children is normal behavior in Wisconsin.  NPR predictably ran cover for Drunk Van Orden by euphemistically referring to his "short fuse", because the media exist to justify, mollify, and soften Republican perfidy.

Unfortunately, binge-drinking is a problem in Wisconsin.  Although if you read the chart for worst states you'll notice they are all Northern clime states which have the problem of those long winter nights.  Interestingly, Norway dealt with this problem of heavy drinking/long winter nights by creating the State Monopoly on alcoholic beverages over 5% ABV and to remove the profit motive with making and selling more and more booze.  Wisconsin drinking culture has been written about for decades although various fixes have been promoted throughout the years.

Of course, Squeaker of the House Qevin McCarthy defended Drunk Van Orden because he needs his vote and Republicans don't give a shit how much of an asshole, criminal, drunk, conman, or pervert you are as long as you pull that lever for the Republican agenda of hatred, intolerance, and adulation of the Rich.

The laws governing the manufactures, distribution, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages are a mish-mash of Anti-Monopoly and Temperance movement and have needed to be cleaned up and streamlined for the 21st century reality.  Earlier this Summer, the Wisconsin legislature did pass a comprehensive reworking of the State's alcohol laws.  Sadly, this matters very little to drunks like Van Orden who revel in slamming a handful of sour Brandy old-fashioned and then engage in favorite well-worn tradition of all abusive alcoholics, berating children.